{"id":573,"date":"2014-04-27T21:57:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T04:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2014-04-27T21:57:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T04:57:36","slug":"how-to-make-pecan-liqueur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Pecan Liqueur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been on a liqueur-making rampage recently! They really allow you to make delicious craft cocktails that taste like you paid $16 for it in a bar. I&#8217;ve never really bought any bottles of liqueur, however, because: a) you seem to need to have, like, a million different liqueurs; and 2) they cost a lot. Instead, I&#8217;ve just been making one or two at a time, and focusing on making cocktails which feature those liqueurs until more are done.<\/p>\n<p>This liqueur is my own personal recipe, that I came up with because it sounded like it would be good.<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<p>1\/2 cup pecans (roasted and finely chopped)<\/p>\n<p>1\/4 cup sugar<\/p>\n<p>1\/4 cup molasses<\/p>\n<p>1\/2 cup dark spiced rum<\/p>\n<p>Method:<\/p>\n<p>Mix all the ingredients together, and seal in a mason jar.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/13901946171\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7092\/14044787765_c51812473a_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">I like looking at the sedimentary layers that form whenever I make liqueurs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Let the mixture macerate for 2 weeks, mixing the jar once a day.<\/p>\n<p>After 2 weeks are up, filter the mixture. First use a coarse filter (such as a metal mesh) to remove the coarse pecan pieces.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/13901946171\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2928\/14041584341_0cd34d1d5d_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Get those pecan pieces out of my liqueur!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/13901946171\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7358\/14044761485_cbeb3c7032_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yea, that&#8217;s the stuff!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then, use a coffee filter to filter out the finer silty stuff.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/13901946171\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2927\/14064770173_a599305477_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The second filtration &#8211; and then you are done!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Et voila! You have yourself some tasty pecan liqueur. I can&#8217;t wait to see what sort of cocktail recipes I can use this in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been on a liqueur-making rampage recently! They really allow you to make delicious craft cocktails that taste like you paid $16 for it in a bar. I&#8217;ve never really bought any bottles of liqueur, however, because: a) you seem to need to have, like, a million different liqueurs; and 2) they cost a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=573\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Make Pecan Liqueur&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[227,230],"tags":[307,316,306,315],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-recipes","tag-cocktails","tag-drinks","tag-liqueur","tag-pecan-liqueur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}